different between quickie vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

quick +? -ie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw?ki/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Noun

quickie (plural quickies)

1. (colloquial) Something made or done swiftly.
2. (colloquial, by extension) A brief sexual encounter.

   Hyponym: nooner

   • 2005, Slavoj Žižek, The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality, Verso (?ISBN), page 89:

     Why talk about courtly love [l'amour courtois] today, in an age of permissiveness when the sexual encounter is often nothing more than a ‘quickie’ in some dark corner of an office?

3. (cricket) A fast bowler.

Derived terms

• quota quickie

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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